Dividend Increases, November 16-30, 2013

Until recently, I've reported dividend adjustments for stocks in my watch list mid-month, every
month. I compile information for the post from a screening feature available to subscribers at Dividend.com. Unfortunately, there's no easy way to screen my entire watch list in one go, so I have to do a lot of manual work. It takes at least 2 hours to do a month's worth of announcements. To reduce the time I spend per post, I've decided to increase the frequency of my posts. In future, I'll report dividend adjustments twice monthly, mid-month and end-of-month.

The following table provides a summary of recent dividend increases for stocks in my watch list, sorted by the last column, %Increase. Dividend amounts are annualized.

Dividend Increases: Nov 16 - Nov 30, 2013

Company	Ticker	Price (Nov 29)	Previous Dividend	New Dividend	Current Yield	%Increase
Main Street Capital Corporation	MAIN	32.95	1.92	3.00	9.10%	+56.25
Becton, Dickinson and Co.	BDX	108.59	1.98	2.18	2.01%	+10.10
South Jersey Industries Inc	SJI	56.70	1.77	1.89	3.33%	+6.78
Williams Companies, Inc.	WMB	35.22	1.47	1.52	4.32%	+3.75
Merck & Co., Inc.	MRK	49.83	1.72	1.76	3.53%	+2.33
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd	TEVA	40.76	1.09	1.11	2.72%	+1.42
NTT Docomo Inc	DCM	16.07	0.63	0.60	3.73%	-4.61

DCM is a semi-annual dividend payer with a pattern of paying one smaller and one larger dividend every year. The pattern of payments since 2010 looks like this:

( $0.284  $0.310 )   ( $0.324  $0.364 )   ( $0.352  $0.368 )   ( $0.314  $0.300 )

It is clear from the last two dividend adjustments that DCM has reduced its annual dividend payment over last year, so I'm removing it from my watch list.